WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

https://wigle.net/index

by dp-hackernews • 10 months ago

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jjkaczor2• 10 months ago

Man - I loved this "back-in-the-day", uh... 23-years ago...

edm0nd3• 10 months ago

I still go around and war drive and upload em to WiGLE!

They make it really easy now. They even have an app you can download on your phone and just open up while driving and start logging and then it just uploads it to WiGLE when you hit stop.

supportengineer• 10 months ago

I believe that is Android-only

adastra222• 10 months ago

Why would you do this?

acka• 10 months ago

I feel you... Running NetStumbler as well as some other tools such as Kismet on a laptop using an Orinoco Wi-Fi PCMCIA card with special firmware / drivers which offered 'Monitor Mode', those were the days...

nunobrito• 10 months ago

Thank you for sharing. Didn't knew it.

xd1936• 10 months ago

See also: https://beacondb.net/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40895672

move-on-by2• 10 months ago

If you want to be excluded from this - as well as from: Google, Microsoft, Apple lists- you have to add ‘_nomap’ to the end of your wifi name.

eigencoder• 10 months ago

I thought it was _optout_nomap (the _optout for Microsoft, _nomap for Google/Apple)

move-on-by2• 10 months ago

Hmm... I was under the impression that MS had added support for `_nomap` as well somewhere... but now I'm not finding any references to that. I suppose at the end of the day, you have to trust that they even follow their opt out policy at all.

skowalak• 10 months ago

A similar project that also tracks cell towers and bluetooth beacons in addition to WiFi is https://beacondb.net . Since Mozilla Location Services shut down they have been a good alternative for geolocation and they are public domain. Unfortunately, data dumps are currently not available, though.

eliaspro• 10 months ago

The great thing about BeaconDB: the API-compatibility to MozillaLocationService. So apps just need to update their endpoint to continue working.

Havoc• 10 months ago

Looking at areas I'm familiar with this is picking up a ton of non-fixed APs - in fact more mobile than fixed. Guessing that's cellphones with tethering on?

typpilol• 10 months ago

I've done wigle for a while

A ton of it is cars with built in hotspots. The other is mobile hotspots left on while on the highway.

WiGLE: Wireless Network Mapping

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